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A. B. FLOYD.

WATER PROOF BONNET 0R HAT.

No. 366,623. Patented July 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ANNA B. FLOYD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE.ASSIGNMENTS, TO FREDERIO O. FLOYD, OF SAME PLACE.

WATER-PROOF BONNET OR HAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,623, dated July 12,1887.

Application filed March 30, 1887. Serial No. 232.970. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, AJNNA B. FLOYD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Water-Proof Bonnets or Hats, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide for ladies, misses, andchildrens wear waterproof bonnets or hats made of and trimmed withmaterials externally impervious to moisture, so that such head-coveringsmay be worn in stormy weather without wetting through and without injuryor diseom fort to the wearer.

My invention consists in such bonnets or hats made, as to their externalbodies and the trimmings thereon, of gossamer rubber fabrics inimitation of the materials commonly eu. ployed in millinery work.

The manufacture of thin rubber'coated fabrics has now reached such adegree of perfection in respect to lightness, coloring, ornamentation,and finish as to enable me to pro -duce impervious bonnets that canscarcely be distinguished at ashort distance from those made of silk orother expensive or dressy ma terials, and the prevailing styles oftrimming by loops of ribbon and other rich goods I am able to closelyimitate in impervious fabrics.

The drawings represent, in Figure 1, a bonnet, and, in Fig. 2, a hat,made in accordance with my invention.

A represents the body of the hat or bonnet, made of a thin gossamerfabric having on its outer surface a film of rubber,rendering itwater-proof, and finished in any desired color or pattern.

B is the trimming, made of like material, of the same or different coloror pattern, and, like thehat or bonnet, of such form as taste or fancydictates. The ribbon-loop style shown in the drawings is effective,readily made, and affords opportunity for the display of considerabletaste. A ruffled edge or border, 0, and strings D may also be made ofthe same fabric.

By the word trimming I mean to include any form or style ofornamentation made of gossamer rubber fabrics and applied externally tothe bonnet or hat. The loops B, ruffiing O, and strings D shown in thedrawings are illustrations.

These bonnets or hats will have the usual frame and foundation ofbuckram with lining of lace, or be otherwise constructed internally, asdesired.

I am aware of the so called tarpaulin or oiled-cloth hats and of theheavy black untrimmed rubber hats worn by fishermen and sailors; butthese are foreign to my invention. I am also aware of the commonpractice of wearing removable oiled-silk coverings over ordinarybonnets; but these coverings, though impervious, form no part of thebonnet and do not embrace my improvement.

Such {that-protector is set forth in the Hopkirk patent, No. 357,200,dated February 8, 1887. A removable non-water-proof cloth pro teetor fora mans water-proof cap with visor is shown and described in the patentto D. Fox, No. 239,758, granted April 5, 1881.

I also disclaim the embossed hat set forth in the Hurlbut and Follettpatent, No. 81,089, dated August 18, 1868, as wholly foreign to myinvention.

1 claim as my iuvention- Ladies and misses bonnets or hats madeexternally of and trimmed externally with gossamer rubber fabrics,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence oftwo subscribing witnesscs, on this 19th day of March, A. D.1887.

ANNA B. FLOYD.

\Vitnesses:

A. H. SPENCER, ELIHU G. LooMIs.

